Mark Reid joined the Perf team. He will be working on the Telemetry backend reboot

Dhaval Giani joined the Perf team as a summer intern. Dhaval is a Master’s student at the University of Toronto where he works on detecting bugs in applications of RCU locking. Dhaval’s first internship project is storing Firefox caches in volatile (purgeable) memory on Android & B2G (bug 748598?)

One Response to Performance Update, Issue #3

Yesterday’s Apple keynote showed Firefox in a very poor light in comparison to Safari and Chrome. I reckon the numbers they put up on stage are not doctored. Here’s why: Apple could be deluded about the performance of Safari, but it has no reason to favor Chrome over Firefox. If anything, given the spat over the forking of Webkit, Apple have reason to deride Chrome.

As a Firefox user for years, I know full well that the Mac platform isn’t a top priority for the team. I hope that changes in the near future given how much that platform’s adoption is increasing.